† Citizen voting-age population estimated for prior cycles; 2004 predates the ACS and is extrapolated. Source: ACS 5-year, table B05003.
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D+60R+60
15 counties by 2024 margin · County returns · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupGreenville-New Bern-WashingtonNorth CarolinaUnited States
English13.2%12.7%9.5%
Irish8.8%8.4%9.4%
German8.7%9.4%12.5%
American7.4%8.3%5.3%
Italian3.3%3.3%4.8%
Scottish1.7%2.3%1.3%
Polish1.2%1.0%2.2%
French0.9%—1.6%
African American†22.1%18.3%9.9%
African0.7%0.7%0.5%
Jamaican0.2%0.2%0.4%
Haitian0.2%—0.3%
Mexican5.5%5.6%11.3%
Puerto Rican1.7%1.2%1.8%
Honduran0.5%0.7%0.3%
Salvadoran0.4%0.7%0.7%
Guatemalan0.3%0.4%0.5%
Cuban0.3%0.3%0.7%
Dominican0.2%0.3%0.7%
Asian Indian0.3%1.2%1.4%
Filipino0.2%0.2%0.9%
Korean0.2%0.2%0.4%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Greenville-New Bern-Washington
North Carolina
United States
Median age
37.4
39.5
39.1
Age 18–24
13.4%
9.5%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
17.9%
17.2%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Greenville-New Bern-Washington
North Carolina
United States
Median household income
$61,025
$72,388
$84,427
Poverty rate
16.1%
13.1%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
26.1%
35.8%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Greenville-New Bern-Washington
North Carolina
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
9.1%
13.5%
22.3%
Spanish
6.8%
8.7%
13.6%
Religious landscape
Measure
Greenville-New Bern-Washington
North Carolina
United States
Catholic
5.6%
8.9%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
21.0%
26.5%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
58.7%
48.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
7.9%
9.1%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
+13.1%
1896
+6.8%
1900
+19.5%
1904
+42.1%
1908
+25.5%
1912
+61.1%
1916
+35.6%
1920
+34.8%
1924
+46.6%
1928
+16.4%
1932
+74.1%
1936
+75.1%
1940
+75.0%
1944
+70.4%
1948
+71.3%
1952
+52.4%
1956
+49.2%
1960
+42.9%
1964
+30.3%
1968
+8.6%
1972
−45.1%
1976
+17.8%
1980
+2.4%
1984
−18.8%
1988
−11.6%
1992
+0.6%
1996
−5.0%
2000
−15.4%
2004
−19.4%
2008
−7.6%
2012
−10.4%
2016
−15.0%
2020
−14.7%
2024
−19.4%
DemocraticRepublican
34 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
39.8%Harris159,418
59.2%Trump237,219
1.1%
R+19.4
R+4.7
R+17.9
401,012
R
41.9%Biden162,556
56.6%Trump219,535
1.5%
R+14.7
D+0.3
R+19.1
387,785
R
40.9%Clinton141,525
55.9%Trump193,272
3.1%
R+15.0
R+4.5
R+17.1
345,664
R
44.3%Obama149,701
54.7%Romney184,959
1.0%
R+10.4
R+2.8
R+14.3
337,944
R
45.9%Obama150,110
53.5%McCain175,019
0.7%
R+7.6
D+11.8
R+14.9
327,272
R
40.2%Kerry103,761
59.5%Bush153,804
0.3%
R+19.4
R+4.0
R+16.9
258,396
R
42.0%Gore94,360
57.4%Bush128,988
0.7%
R+15.4
R+10.4
R+15.9
224,913
R
44.4%Clinton84,875
49.4%Dole94,435
6.3%
R+5.0
R+5.6
R+13.5
191,272
D
43.4%Clinton86,530
42.7%Bush85,249
13.9%
D+0.6
D+12.3
R+4.9
199,415
R
44.1%Dukakis74,187
55.7%Bush93,765
0.3%
R+11.6
D+7.2
R+3.9
168,389
R
40.5%Mondale73,332
59.3%Reagan107,410
0.2%
R+18.8
R+21.3
R+0.6
181,128
D
50.0%Carter76,307
47.6%Reagan72,573
2.4%
D+2.4
R+15.4
D+12.2
152,546
D
58.6%Carter75,625
40.8%Ford52,603
0.6%
D+17.8
D+63.0
D+15.8
129,049
R
26.8%McGovern31,827
72.0%Nixon85,411
1.2%
R+45.1
R+53.8
R+22.0
118,683
O
32.0%Humphrey43,153
23.4%Nixon31,506
44.7%
Wallace +12.7
R+21.7
D+9.3
134,915
D
65.2%Johnson71,287
34.8%Goldwater38,120
0.0%
D+30.3
R+12.6
D+7.7
109,407
D
71.5%Kennedy72,651
28.5%Nixon29,016
0.0%
D+42.9
R+6.3
D+42.8
101,667
D
74.6%Stevenson65,571
25.4%Eisenhower22,305
0.0%
D+49.2
R+3.2
D+64.6
87,876
D
76.2%Stevenson63,398
23.8%Eisenhower19,789
0.0%
D+52.4
R+18.8
D+63.2
83,187
D
83.6%Truman52,525
12.4%Dewey7,771
4.0%
D+71.3
D+0.9
D+66.8
62,793
D
85.2%Roosevelt50,962
14.8%Dewey8,845
0.0%
D+70.4
R+4.5
D+62.9
59,807
D
87.5%Roosevelt56,221
12.5%Willkie8,048
0.0%
D+75.0
R+0.1
D+65.0
64,269
D
87.5%Roosevelt58,246
12.5%Landon8,294
0.0%
D+75.1
D+1.0
D+50.8
66,540
D
86.8%Roosevelt49,096
12.7%Hoover7,175
0.6%
D+74.1
D+57.7
D+56.3
56,591
D
58.2%Smith28,126
41.8%Hoover20,215
0.0%
D+16.4
R+30.3
D+33.8
48,341
D
72.8%Davis26,252
26.2%Coolidge9,448
1.0%
D+46.6
D+11.9
D+71.8
36,047
D
67.4%Cox31,984
32.6%Harding15,486
0.0%
D+34.8
R+0.9
D+60.9
47,470
D
67.8%Wilson19,756
32.1%Hughes9,366
0.1%
D+35.6
R+25.4
D+32.5
29,154
D
70.5%Wilson17,587
9.4%Taft2,349
20.1%
D+61.1
D+35.6
D+41.5
24,948
D
62.6%Bryan16,723
37.1%Taft9,913
0.2%
D+25.5
R+16.6
D+35.1
26,699
D
70.8%Parker16,550
28.7%Roosevelt6,712
0.5%
D+42.1
D+22.6
D+61.7
23,387
D
59.7%Bryan22,899
40.2%McKinley15,418
0.2%
D+19.5
D+12.7
D+27.0
38,386
D
53.2%Bryan23,204
46.4%McKinley20,256
0.4%
D+6.8
R+6.3
D+12.8
43,620
D
47.9%Cleveland17,295
34.8%Harrison12,573
17.3%
D+13.1
—
D+11.4
36,122
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2024R+3.9
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+19.4
Registration leans Republican; the presidential vote runs 15 points more Democratic.
DemocraticRepublicanUnaffiliatedOther parties
Voter registration in Greenville-New Bern-Washington
Year
Total registered
Democratic
Republican
Unaffiliated
Other
2008
468,966
237,477
136,453
94,804
232
2012
517,815
241,518
151,139
123,759
1,399
2016
532,441
220,550
159,487
149,898
2,506
2020
542,795
192,885
174,362
171,251
4,297
2022
539,171
176,315
176,484
182,310
4,062
2024
585,371
171,221
194,190
213,545
6,415
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net domestic migration over time
+4,089 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −17,414 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Domestic migration in Greenville-New Bern-Washington in Greenville-New Bern-Washington: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−4,900
2012
−2,478
2013
−5,788
2014
−6,854
2015
−6,752
2016
−6,177
2017
−1,664
2018
−439
2019
−2,321
2021
+5
2022
+4,102
2023
+6,379
2024
+5,384
2025
+4,089
Anchored by East Carolina University in Greenville and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point near Havelock, this eastern North Carolina media market blends college-town, military, and rural agricultural communities in ways that complicate straight-line partisan predictions.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 75.1 points in 1936 and a Republican high of 45.1 points in 1972. Between 2020 and 2024 the market moved 4.7 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 19.4 points.
A population of 805,431, a 60% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $61,025 describe the market. The market's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Savannah and Albany, GA.
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How did Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina vote in 2024?
In 2024, Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina voted Republican by 19.4 points (R+19.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 401,012 votes cast, 159,418 went Democratic and 237,219 went Republican.
When did Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina voted Democratic was 1992.
How many people live in Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina?
Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina has a population of 805,431 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina?
Median household income in Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina is $61,025 — below the national median of $80,734. The North Carolina state median is $72,388.
What is the political history of Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina?
Akashic tracks 34 presidential elections in Greenville-New Bern-Washington, North Carolina from 1892 to 2024. Of those, 22 went Democratic and 11 went Republican.
